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First TBM launched under London completes 1000th tunnel ring
05 December, 2012
The first of eight TBMs, Phyllis, is currently tunnelling under Hyde Park after completing her 1000th tunnel ring and has now constructed 1800m of tunnel from Royal Oak via the Paddington station box, Crossrail announced yesterday.

Third TBM begins tunnelling on Crossrail
04 December, 2012
The 1,000t TBM, Elizabeth, has begun the 8.3km tunnelling journey to create the eastern section of the new rail line between Docklands and central London, Crossrail announced late last week. Elizabeth has now placed the first of 110,000 concrete segments that will line the eastern tunnels.

Work to upgrade utilities in Farringdon progresses
15 November, 2012
As part of the construction of the new Farringdon station, Crossrail is protecting and replacing the utilities that lie beneath Farringdon Road, the company has announced. The main phase of the utility works commenced yesterday and are expected to continue until May 2013.

Normet strengthens UK team
07 November, 2012
Sergio Matias has joined the Normet UK team as the technical manager for underground construction and mining, the company announced late last week. Sergio, who joined in October 2012, is now part of a 10 man team supporting tunnels contractors, mining companies and designers.

London crawling
27 August, 2012
As T&TI goes to press in its London offices, and the world watches the city prepare for the Olympics, locals are bemused at the prospect of inviting 5.3 million guests from all over the world to fight for a seat on the aging, and massively over-capacity infrastructure in the UK capital.

London's Custom House station contract awarded
22 August, 2012
The main construction contract for C520 Custom House station has been awarded, it was announced late last week. Crossrail awarded the contract to Laing O¹Rourke Construction. In line with European procurement rules the contract is subject to a 10 day standstill period.

First incline lifts in the UK to be installed
02 August, 2012
A major contract for around 50 lifts for the new Crossrail stations as well as five lifts for Bank, Greenford and Hammersmith tube station, has been awarded it was announced late last week.

Crossrail planning dock breakout
16 July, 2012
When Crossrail took over the ancient Connaught Tunnel as part of its route through east London, it was envisaged that it would be brought up to standard with a fill and re-excavate procedure, but further site investigations led to concerns that will now be tackled by open excavation through the Royal Docks

Historic subway given Crossrail role
11 July, 2012
The Kingsway Tram Tunnel, a historic subway that has been abandoned for the last 60 years, will be temporary re-used for Crossrail, it was revealed yesterday.

Crossrail archeology dig crosses half way point
04 July, 2012
The Crossrail archeology programme has reached its half way point with a number of valuable discoveries made including 55 million-year-old amber fragments at the Crossrail Canary Wharf station site.

First TBM components arrive for Crossrail’s eastern tunnels
21 June, 2012
Assembly of Crossrail’s next 1,000 ton TBM, Elizabeth, has commenced at Limmo Peninsula, a key worksite in east London, it was announced today. Four of the eight Crossrail TBMs have been manufactured so far.

Power up the future
17 May, 2012
UK gas and electric power network operator National Grid is engaged in a major renewal programme to ensure power supplies for the future. One aspect is to install high-voltage cables underground to renew the grid in major urban areas, starting with London. Maurice Jones visited one of the current tunnel drives in a 32km-long network that started recently in north London

Chile mine rescue
17 May, 2012
In 2010 the world was gripped by an unfolding drama as tense as the Apollo 13 crisis of some 40 years earlier. This time the story was much closer to home in Chile, though, as it turned out, the challenges proved at least as great to resolve and no less remote. At February’s joint meeting between the BTS and Minsouth, mine rescue expert Brian Robinson gave a presentation on the rescue operation and its implications for past, present and future underground works

BREAKING NEWS: Crossrail starts digging
04 May, 2012

Bechtel’s 2011 results
26 April, 2012

Primary risk reduction
18 April, 2012
It is notable that many treatises on the subject of project risk management do not pay much attention to the subject of site investigation (SI), even though the gathering of accurate information before a tunneling project commences is bound to decrease risk to a project. Today there is a wide array of techniques available to collect such information and costs that can be balanced favourably against overall project expenditure. Maurice Jones reviews some of these

Crossrail countdown
17 April, 2012
With the first Herrenknecht TBM launching as T&TI goes to press, Alex Conacher takes a look back to site visits in early February as segment production had just begun, and the machines were being assembled in the west London mud

Talking tunnels
16 April, 2012
In ‘his’ first appearance for some years Drifter, the old T&T favourite, returns on page 58 to urge tunnellers to be more talkative. He calls for everyone to become more vocal in his or her support of the industry and in educating others on the importance of underground infrastructure. In a similar vein, the incoming and outgoing chairs of the British Tunnelling Society (BTS) argue the importance of raising tunnelling awareness with politicians and clients. Damian McGirr and Bob Ibell argue that a steady future workload can be achieved by ensuring each city planner has the use of underground space firmly on the agenda. McGirr says the BTS will be central in making this happen.

Present and future state of UK tunneling
16 April, 2012
Outgoing chair of the BTS Bob Ibell looks at the recent achievements of the UK tunnelling industry and the current state of works

Crossrail fit-out shortlist
04 April, 2012